{"id":3927928,"date":"2026-09-10T23:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T04:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/ultra-cold-quantum-sensors-cut-x-ray-uncertainty-improving-nuclear-material-assessments\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T23:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T04:00:46","slug":"ultra-cold-quantum-sensors-cut-x-ray-uncertainty-improving-nuclear-material-assessments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/ultra-cold-quantum-sensors-cut-x-ray-uncertainty-improving-nuclear-material-assessments\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-cold quantum sensors cut X-ray uncertainty, improving nuclear material assessments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>To monitor the amount and type of nuclear material at power plants and weapons facilities, scientists look for a special signal\u2014the unique pattern of gamma rays emitted by specific radioactive elements. However, some of these elements also emit X-rays in the same energy range as the gamma-ray emissions, masking the signal and making nuclear stockpiles harder to assess.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-09-ultra-cold-quantum-sensors-ray.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To monitor the amount and type of nuclear material at power plants and weapons facilities, scientists look for a special signal\u2014the unique pattern of gamma rays emitted by specific radioactive elements. However, some of these elements also emit X-rays in the same energy range as the gamma-ray emissions, masking the signal and making nuclear stockpiles [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}